This day in history
Today is Monday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2023. There are 55 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Actor June Squibb is 94. Singer P.J. Proby is 85. Actor Sally Field is 77. Singer Rory Block is 74. Jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval is 74. TV host Catherine Crier is 69. News correspondent and former California first lady Maria Shriver is 68. Actor Lori Singer is 66. Former education secretary Arne Duncan is 59. Author Colson Whitehead is 54. Actor Ethan Hawke is 53. Actor Taryn Manning is
45. Actor Katie Leclerc is 37. Singer-songwriter Ben Rector is
37. Actor Emma Stone is 35. US Olympic swimming gold medalist Bobby Finke is 24.
▶ In 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected president.
▶ In 1861, James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Almonte, Canada.
▶ In 1928, in a first, the results of Republican Herbert Hoover’s presidential election victory over Democrat Alfred E. Smith were flashed onto an electric wraparound sign on the New York Times building.
▶ In 1947, “Meet the Press” made its debut on NBC; the first guest was James A. Farley, former postmaster general and former Democratic National Committee chair; the host was the show’s co-creator, Martha Rountree.
▶ In 1970, Aerosmith took the stage for the first time, at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon.
▶ In 1977, 39 people were killed when the Kelly Barnes Dam in Georgia burst, sending a wall of water through Toccoa Falls College.
▶ In 1984, President Reagan won reelection by a landslide over former vice president Walter Mondale, the Democratic challenger who won just one state, his native Minnesota.
▶ In 2012, President Obama easily won reelection, vanquishing Republican former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 332 electoral votes to 206. Elizabeth Warren defeated Senator Scott Brown and would become the first female senator from Massachusetts
▶ In 2015, President Obama rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it would undercut US efforts to clinch a global climate change deal.
▶ In 2016, FBI Director James Comey abruptly announced that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges related to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department.
▶ In 2019, Democrats announced that they would launch public impeachment hearings against President Trump the following week.
▶ In 2020, the federal agency that oversees US election security pushed back at unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud from President Trump and others, saying that local election offices had detection measures that “make it highly difficult to commit fraud through counterfeit ballots.”
▶ Last year, Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, Pat Benatar, and Eminem were among those inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Los Angeles.